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Double star system flips planet-forming disk into pole position
Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)
The overall system presents the unusual sight of a thick hoop of gas and dust circling at right angles to the binary star orbit. Until now this setup only exist...
The Truth is Out There: New Online SETI Tool Tracks Alien Searches
Jan 16, 2019 (Sputnik)
As researchers around the globe continue their quest to find physical proof of extraterrestrial life, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SE...
Potential for life on planet around Barnard's Star
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
That was a conclusion announced by Villanova University Astrophysicists Edward Guinan and Scott Engle at a January 10 press conference held at the 223rd meeting...
First comprehensive, interactive tool to track SETI searches
Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)
Jill Tarter, SETI pioneer and co-founder of the SETI Institute, has launched Technosearch, a new-web-based tool that includes all published SETI searches from 1...
Young planets orbiting red dwarfs may lack ingredients for life
Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)
This hypothesis is based on surprising observations of a rapidly eroding dust-and-gas disk encircling the young, nearby red dwarf star AU Microscopii (AU Mic) b...
Space microbes aren't so alien after all
Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)
A new Northwestern University study has found that - despite its seemingly harsh conditions - the ISS is not causing bacteria to mutate into dangerous, antibiot...
Nature's magnifying glass reveals unexpected intermediate mass exoplanets
Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)
Aparna Bhattacharya, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), led the team that made the discove...
TESS discovers its third new planet, with longest orbit yet
Jan 08, 2019 (SPX)
The new planet, named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light-years away, in the constellation Reticulum, and appears to have the longest o...
Astronomers find warped protoplanetary disk around distant star
Jan 08, 2019 (UPI)
Until now, astronomers assumed the sometimes off-kilter orbital planes of planets is caused by the gravitational influences of larger planets. In other words, t...
Citizen scientists find unusual exoplanet among Kepler data
Jan 08, 2019 (UPI)
The alien world, named K2-288Bb, is roughly twice the size of Earth, but scientists aren't certain whether it's composed of rock or is a mostly gaseous world, l...
Galaxy collision could send solar system flying
Jan 04, 2019 (SPX)
New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years' time....
Baby star's fiery tantrum could create building blocks of planets
Jan 01, 2019 (SPX)
One of the largest ever seen on a star of its type, the huge explosion of energy and plasma is around 10,000 times bigger than the largest solar flare ever reco...
Scientists discover how and when DNA replicates
Jan 01, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers first identified DNA replication in the 1950s, but have since struggled to understand the underlying mechanisms. "It's been quite a mystery," David ...
Early protostar already has a warped disk
Jan 01, 2019 (SPX)
The planets in our solar system orbit the Sun in planes that are at most about seven degrees offset from the equator of the Sun itself. It has been known for so...
NASA study finds sugars, key ingredient for life, can form in space
Dec 21, 2018 (Sputnik)
A new paper published on Tuesday by scientists from the National Atmospheric and Space Administration's (NASA) Ames Research Center in the journal Nature Commun...
Planets with Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life
Dec 18, 2018 (SPX)
Simulating in the lab the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system, researchers successfully created both organic compounds and oxygen, absent of life. Th...
Narrowing the universe in the search for life
Dec 18, 2018 (SPX)
And as astrophysicists and astronomers have searched for the answer, they've traditionally looked for a world that has water. But Wendy Panero, professor of ear...
In search of missing worlds, Hubble finds a fast-evaporating exoplanet
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
In fact, most of the known Neptune-sized exoplanets are merely "warm," because they orbit farther away from their star than those in the region where astronomer...
Dancing with the enemy
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
This spectacular image - the second instalment in ESO's R Aquarii Week - shows intimate details of the dramatic stellar duo making up the binary star R Aquarii....
A young star caught forming like a planet
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
While observing the young star, astronomers led by Dr. John Ilee from the University of Leeds discovered it was not in fact one star, but two. The main object, ...
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